Keegan Aplin-Thane
Hey All!
Just got approached by Jen from Rangitikei about our approach to promoting mural art as a tool for creative placemaking in Papaioea, so thought I’d throw it out to the network to see
how other places have approached mural initiatives in the past. I hope you don’t mind Jen!
In Palmy we’ve had some awesome organic growth in mural arts from kicking off a bit of an initiative to break down the barriers to investing in murals, and you can see the
results here. I’ve attached a quick and dirty one-pager we put out as factsheet for those that may have interest in investing in a mural on their wall. If it’s a business or building owner, we’d typically work to get the
local artist that best fits what they want to do, match fund with scissor-lift hire, traffic management, and paint costs provided they pay a decent rate to the artist. This usually ends up being about a 50/50 share, but shows that Council puts in to recognise
the public good of the mural, and the business puts in to recognise the private benefit to their site. If they are a community group or a non-profit, then they would apply through our Creative Communities Scheme. Because of the growth of mural art in the City,
there has been lots of murals being commissioned that haven’t required any Council involvement beyond helping them find artist contacts, which has been a very validating result.
Anyone else got any insights from their area to share for Jen?
@Yulia, I know that you had some recent success for a mural, keen to share?
Kia kaha,
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Keegan Aplin-Thane
Yulia,
Dennis who runs the Avondale Art Park Facebook Page gave me some really great advice before we established our three free walls along the Mangaone Stream walkway. Would be worth sending him a DM.
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From: Yulia Panfylova <Yulia.P...@tasman.govt.nz>
Sent: Friday, 23 October 2020 9:13 AM
To: Keegan Aplin-Thane <Keegan.Ap...@pncc.govt.nz>; placemaki...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Jen Britton <Jen.B...@rangitikei.govt.nz>
Subject: RE: Approaches to Mural Art Programmes
Hi everyone,
Thank you Keegan, it is really inspiring. Tasman District has lots of talented artists by most of our business owners are not ready yet to work with artists, so we are using Council buildings firs to kick start
as you said, Keegan. The only thing with Council buildings is that most of the walls are covered with Uracryl, that adds additional costs when installing an art work.
We’ve finished an interesting project recently. We were approached by a young Māori artists Nerys Ngaruhe with the idea of transforming unlicensed graffiti into murals. Not just painting them over, but incorporating their ideas. She calls this process graffiti
evolvement. First job that she did for us was in an underpass. I attached pictures before and after
J.
Lesson learned is that the coms need to go out asap, explaining the kaupapa. As we had some questions from the community about whether those are magic mushrooms and the wahine is Hine-nui-Te-Pō and one scared little girl who refused to go through the underpass
as she was scared J. We are putting a board with explanation there soon, but another idea is to stick QR codes to every mural that we do with links to the website pages
with info.
Nerys and I are also planning to transform one of the fences along Great Taste Trial into a Free Graffiti wall. We will use it to tech young artists and provide them an avenue to practice their skills.
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Piper, Clare
Hi all,
I have to disclose that I am a Trustee of Watch This Space Trust – so kind of involved in highlighting the murals or graffiti art we do have, and to support the increase of them in Chch. Much of our funding (as a charitable trust) comes from seeking funding from all sorted of places!!
- https://watchthisspace.org.nz/
From Christchurch there have been a few different approaches:
1. Street Art Festival called Oi You! Which while had ‘graffiti art’ in museum and gallery experience, it also had a ‘Big Walls’ programme alongside it. We got a few high quality big street art murals (such the iconic ballerina on the back of the Theatre, and the 3 lips by the casino). Was held years in row. Not sure how they got funding, I think Creative NZ came to the party at some point?
- https://www.streetart.co.nz/
2. Street Prints Ōtautahi also contributed some large murals to the cityscape. Only held one year. I think funding from CCC was provided via the Enliven Places Projects Fund to support? (Martin might be able to confirm this?)
- https://ccc.govt.nz/culture-and-community/community-funding/enliven-places-funding/
- https://www.streetprints.org/otautahi/
3. Council initiated and funded murals. We have done around 2 types from memory:
- Ibis hotel: A public call for designers, then the public voted on the one they preferred. Council then made it happen on the side of a private building. Martin was the lead for that project.
- Laneway areas: We’ve done two in pedestrian areas, one was Flox along Plymouth Lane (now demolished)….. and another was at the back of hotel (Distinction) that was a bit rough, so graffiti art to make it a bit better from an visual amenity point of view. Again Martin might be able to expand on that.
I have found that once word gets out you might have a wall, sometimes artists approach you – you are just giving them permission J
It also helps to support with some funding – around $5,000 is usually nice – where perhaps you could get some public engagement and participation out of it?
Larger ones by more established artists that you might commission can be anywhere from $30,000 upwards (design time, equipment like access platform lift and materials, might even need application to temporarily use the footpath – so health and safety aspects for installation).
Hope that helps!
Kia manahau!
Clare Piper
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Cc: Jen Britton <Jen.B...@rangitikei.govt.nz>
Subject: [Placemaking Aotearoa] Approaches to Mural Art Programmes
Hey All!
Just got approached by Jen from Rangitikei about our approach to promoting mural art as a tool for creative placemaking in Papaioea, so thought I’d throw it out to the network to see
how other places have approached mural initiatives in the past. I hope you don’t mind Jen!
In Palmy we’ve had some awesome organic growth in mural arts from kicking off a bit of an initiative to break down the barriers to investing in murals, and you can see the
results here. I’ve attached a quick and dirty one-pager
we put out as factsheet for those that may have interest in investing in a mural on their wall. If it’s a business or building owner, we’d typically work to get the local artist that best fits what they want to do, match fund with scissor-lift hire, traffic
management, and paint costs provided they pay a decent rate to the artist. This usually ends up being about a 50/50 share, but shows that Council puts in to recognise the public good of the mural, and the business puts in to recognise the private benefit to
their site. If they are a community group or a non-profit, then they would apply through our Creative Communities Scheme. Because of the growth of mural art in the City, there has been lots of murals being commissioned that haven’t required any Council involvement
beyond helping them find artist contacts, which has been a very validating result.
Anyone else got any insights from their area to share for Jen?
@Yulia, I know that you had some recent success for a mural, keen to share?
Kia kaha,
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